This week is
the final week of “real” new work on my major project. This week, I did my best
with the last four fonts left in my calligraphy book.
The first
script I worked on was called Black Letter. This one is one of the fanciest,
most complicated scripts I have worked on yet. I did my practice strokes as
always, then the alphabet, then some words.
After doing
the first script was when I decided to try my hand at every script left in the
book. For these three scripts, I just did the alphabet.
The second script I did was called
Chancery. This one is a little plainer, but not quite as “plain,” or as I like to
call it, classic, as Sans Serif.
The third script is called Uncial. It
is also a more classic, uncomplicated script. However, it is supposed to have
very thick lines. If the calligraphy pens I have actually worked and I was not
using calligraphy markers I might have had more success, but I was unable to
get as thick of lines as I wanted.
The final script left in my book is
called Batarde. I struggled with some of the letters, but I think overall they
look pretty good.
I finally brought out the nice paper
that came with my calligraphy set. It was actually a bit harder to write on
than the notebook paper I’ve been using thus far. I felt as though my lines
were not as smooth, and I had to go over them a few times. Though it’s
(clearly) not perfect, and there are some mistakes obviously made, I think I’ve
made pretty good progress in the past few weeks.
To wrap up my major project next
week, I’m going to try one last time to use my fancy calligraphy pens, and I
intend to write something in every font I’ve tried.
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